EPub is everywhere. Like I said, it's pretty much the standard eBook
format. If you buy books through the iTunes store, ebooks.com and so on.
If you're refering to apps as the ones on the iPhone and iPad, then
no, they're only on those devices. You can't access them through the pc.
I use my braille display with my computer and iPhone/iPad. Apple
devices support a lot of displays and note takers. You'd have to check
Apple's site to check if your display/note taker is supported since I
can't recall off the top of my head which ones are and aren't.
Kindle books are really a no go as far as accessibility. I do believe
that there is a Kindle for pc program that one can use with JFW, but
I've never really bothered looking into that since the other options
are much more accessible on many more devices without all the
accessibility hassel that Amazon's books present.
*From:*Eden Kizer [mailto:eden420@xxxxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:54 PM
*To:* bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [bookshare-discuss] Re: TED Books
Are there a lot of epub books, and where do you find them, and do
the aps read through JFW on your computer? Reason I ask is that I
could hook my display to the computer and JFW would read it. With
Kendall that won't work because they use their own synthesizer to read
not with JFW kind of like when I use my Readit Wand to scan, but I can
put books in different formats.
Eden
On 6/14/2012 2:03 PM, Cristobal wrote:
ePub is becoming kind of like the mp3 of eBook formats. Whereas the
mobi format is Kindle specific. ePub can be read on many devices,
eBook readers, iPhones, iPads, the computer, etc. Mobi is Kindle or
Kindle app exclusive.
I read ePub on my iPhone or iPad all the time. There's also a good
Firefox ePub extension called ePub Reader that works well with Jaws.
I'm also able to read the ePub books with my Brailliant 40 cell display.
I have no experience with the BookSense, but it would probably be a
good idea to read up on any documentation there may be on the vendor's
website
Also, it appears that Kurzweil 1000 version 13 was just announced for
release and one of the new features is ePub support and ePub writing
of documents for reading on portable devices.
*From:*Eden Kizer [mailto:eden420@xxxxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:18 AM
*To:* bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [bookshare-discuss] Re: TED Books
so are there more books in epub or Kendal, and are any of you
reading those kinds of boooks on a regular basis? I am about to
purchase a braille sense plus so I can read in braille, but even
though that will work with my computer, it won't work with the Kendall
ap due to the fact that the Kendalll ap uses its own voice, but I
assume I would just download the .brf of the bookshare files which
sucks because I now have 800 books in daisy format, and I can't see
how I would read them on a braille sense, I could connect to the
internet I guess and change the xml to html to read them that way, but
if anyone reads with a braille sense in braille with bookshare books,
please let me know. In fact, anyone who uses a braille sense plus for
much of anything, contact me so I can get help learning. thanks.
Sincerely,
eden Kizer
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On 6/14/2012 1:05 PM, Cristobal wrote:
EPub books are basically zipped html files. If you wanted, you could
just change the .ePub extension to .zip and use an unzipping tool like
WinRar to unzip the files. You would then get a folder containing a
series of html files. There are also conversion programs like Calibre
and Stanza that can be used to convert between file formats. My
understanding is that Calibre is not screen reader friendly (jaws at
least) and last I tried using Stanza, it was more or less useable, but
I haven't really played with it in a while.
*From:*Evan Reese [mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
*Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:53 AM
*To:* bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [bookshare-discuss] Re: TED Books
Thanks Madeleine for the info.
Oh, I wasn't thinking of converting an ebook for submission purposes,
but only for the purpose of making it into an rtf file so I could read
it on the braille display of my Pac Mate. Just a preferable way of
reading is all. If it is technically possible, I'd be interested in
hearing about it for that reason only.
Evan
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*From:*Madeleine Linares <mailto:Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
*To:*bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:*Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:34 PM
*Subject:*[bookshare-discuss] Re: TED Books
Hi Evan,
To my knowledge we do not currently work with TED books. I don't
know whether or not we will be working with them in the future,
but I'll ask around and see if I can find anything out. However,
we rarely know in advance if we're going to partner with a
particular publisher.
You are correct that you cannot convert an ebook or Kindle book to
rtf and submit it. Technically, it is possible to convert the
files, but we will not accept them.
Best,
Madeleine
*From:*Evan Reese [mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
<mailto:[mailto:mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:52 AM
*To:* bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [bookshare-discuss] TED Books
I don't see TED Books on the list of publishers Madeleine sent
yesterday. Is Bookshare working with them by any chance? They're
publishing stuff that's only in ebook format, so it would sure be
good if Bookshare could get those so I could load them onto my Pac
Mate. Unless I'm very much mistaken, (and I would like to be), I
can't convert, say a Kindle book, to an rtf file, or a brf file,
that I could read on my Pac Mate's braille display. Isn't that right?
Evan